museums

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/6/19
  

  A Reimagined Spy Museum in Washington Doesn’t Flinch From the Darker Side

  Built for $162 million, the museum features flashy interactive exhibits but also grapples with intelligence failures, out-of-control surveillance and torture.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  5/7/19
  

  Lawmakers Renew Efforts To Open ‘The National Museum Of The American Latino’

  A bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced a bill to establish the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Should These Clothes Be Saved?

  Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/30/19
  

  A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

  Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/1/19
  

  Waking Up to History

  by Margaret Renkl

  At new museums, the past is finally becoming more than the story of men and wars.

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• 4/2/19
  

  ROOAARRRR: 66 Million Years of Tales about the Big, Bad T-Rex Dinosaur

  by Bruce Chadwick

  If you love dinosaurs and/or being chased by one, this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is for you. Bring the kids.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/29/29
  

  Pair of bipartisan senators propose women's history museum in DC

  Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced their legislation Friday.

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• SOURCE: Science Magazine
  3/27/19
  

  Countries demand their fossils back, forcing natural history museums to confront their past

  The story of Giraffatitan's discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents.  

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/25/19
  

  Smithsonian’s “Double Exposure” photo book series depicts black Americans championing their lives through photography

  For Turn-of-the-Century African-Americans, the Camera Was a Tool for Empowerment

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

  Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History have been amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies exhibits often perpetuate.

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• SOURCE: Vice News
  3/8/19
  

  The Holocaust Prisoners Who Risked Their Lives to Sneak Evidence from Concentration Camps

  A new exhibition at London's Wiener Library tells the story of the men and women who enlightened the world as to what was happening in the extermination camps.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  The Missouri Museum That Churchill Built

  The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/6/19
  

  Yemen Asks U.S. for Help to Curb Smuggling of Looted Ancient Artifacts

  Four years into a civil war, thousands of antiquities have been taken from Yemen’s museums.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/19
  

  A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.

  The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/19
  

  A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader

  The torrents of scorn poured on Mr. Yeltsin and his era by the Kremlin’s cheerleaders have given the complex an edgy appeal, helping it attract more than 700,000 visitors since it opened three winters ago.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/1/19
  

  A German Bratwurst Museum Unwittingly Starts a Holocaust Controversy

  The Bratwurst Museum had unwittingly stepped into a long-running debate about what to do with the thousands of places that were once part of the Nazis’ extensive machinery of death.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/2/19
  

  History During the Shutdown: Smithsonian and Other Museums Forced to Close

  They held on for as long as they could, but now the Smithsonian and other Washington museums are closed. 

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  11-21-18
  

  Surging Interest in Black History Gives a Lift to Museums, Tourism

  Black history museums and historic sites are flourishing across the South, riding a wave of interest in African-American history that has made a stunning success of the two-year-old National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-18-18
  

  Posters, Banners, Boarding Passes: Museums Try to Get a Head Start on History

  Curators across Europe are increasingly trying “rapid response collecting” to obtain items used in major events just after they happen.